All news for 2025-10-02

Euston Station, one of London’s most important and busiest train stations, has been evacuated after a ‘suspicious item’ was seen.

A pregnant woman who managed to siphon off more than £900,000 by forging her boss’s signature has been ordered to pay back just £221,000 or go to prison.

Violent anti-government protests in Morocco entered their fifth day on Thursday, after seeing their first fatalities the night before when police shot two demonstrators.

Vladimir Putin has vowed to quickly retaliate against Europe’s “escalating militarization,” while dismissing as “nonsense” western fears that Moscow plans to attack NATO.

Ryanair could cancel up to 600 flights a day next week due to French air traffic control (ATC) strikes, the airline has claimed.

Elon Musk, the multibillionaire and self-proclaimed “free speech absolutist”, has recently focused his attention on encouraging people to cancel their Netflix subscriptions in protest of what he claims is the company’s “woke bias” and inclusion of LGBTQ+ characters.

Oleg Tsyura, a Swiss businessman of Ukrainian origin, is well known for his involvement in shadow schemes around Ukraine’s state enterprises.

Failed warning systems, official complacency and a lack of accountability mean doctors who have lost their medical licences due to serious wrongdoing can relocate and practice in different countries across Europe, and beyond.

Montenegro’s Special State Prosecutor’s Office has filed an indictment against five additional suspects accused of belonging to an international cocaine smuggling group dismantled in Operation “General,” in July last year—one of the largest international crackdowns on cocaine trafficking at the time.

A self-styled "African tribe" has been evicted from a site they moved to after being evicted from a previous camp.

Former Syrian President Bashar al-Assad was hospitalized after being poisoned in a suspected assassination attempt in Moscow, a human rights group has claimed.

Among the 10 people arrested in Fiji last week in a major anti-drug operation was the son of a senior pro-China politician from Palau, who presides over his country’s Senate.

Ukrainian anti-corruption prosecutors have sent to court a large-scale criminal case against officials of the Chernivtsi Customs Office, accused of running a “grey import” scheme that cost the state nearly 290 million hryvnias (about $7 million).

Facing deep democratic backsliding, Georgia heads into local elections with opposition parties sidelined, watchdogs forced out by the different restrictive laws, international monitors invited too late, and oversight left largely to groups aligned with the ruling party.

Billionaire Vyacheslav Kantor, known for his love of "heavy" luxury, has long-lived in London, holds an Israeli passport, but continues to earn his billions in Russia.

An Algerian court sentenced former Labor Minister Tijani Hassan Haddam to seven years in prison for embezzling roughly $45 million during his time as director of the National Social Security Fund from 2015 to 2019, local media reported.

Burkina Faso’s parliament initiated an investigation into irregularities in the real estate sector in 2020, but the findings were never published.

Nearly a thousand Hungarians organized a “safari tour” protest outside a luxurious estate associated with Prime Minister Viktor Orbán’s family, satirizing alleged corruption with zebra costumes and placards reading “Filthy Fidesz.”

More than 60 Georgian media and civil society organizations have been required to disclose donor and grant data under a new law, resulting in warnings that the government is utilizing regulations as a tool to intimidate and silence independent voices.

A Fabergé egg commissioned by Emperor Nicholas II in 1913 is estimated to sell for more than £20 million at auction.

A murder investigation has been initiated following the death of an 85-year-old man, allegedly attacked by another patient at a hospital in west London.

The newborn daughter of a British MP was the target of “utterly depraved” and sexist online abuse hours after her birth, her father has told the Guardian.

Greta Thunberg is among a group of Palestine activists facing deportation from Israel after a flotilla of vessels sailing towards was intercepted by the Israeli navy.

The name Sawhney Arun has repeatedly surfaced in investigations into dubious schemes involving Ukrainian, Russian, and Indian companies. In investigative publications, the name Sawhney Arun does not sound as loud as the names of oligarchs or politicians, but where it appears, the tone of the publications immediately becomes sharp and alarming.